Roosevelt Elementary and Willson-Beardshear Buyers Offered Second Tour

The Ames Community School District is offering a second buyers tour for anyone interested in buying the former Roosevelt Elementary School or Willson-Beardshear properties. The tour will take place 10 a.m. Friday.

The tour will begin at the Roosevelt school site at 901 Ninth Street. Roosevelt a 37,100 square foot building closed in 2005. The near 100-year-old building opened in 1923.

Willson-Beardshear is a 2.53 acre site located at 900 Carroll Avenue. The single-story building opened in 1968 and has been used by the district for storage and to house the district's technology department.

The school board has already taken offers on sales for both the former middle school site on State Street and an offer for the Somerset property. However those bids have not been formally accepted.

Anyone wanting to tour Roosevelt or Willson-Beardshear should send a letter of interest to the Ames Community School Board stating their interest and an estimate of what they would pay for the property.

The letters can be sent to

Tim Taylor

Superintendent

Ames Community School District

415 Stanton Ave.

Ames, Iowa 50010 or email tim.taylor@ames.k12.ia.us